WinRT apps and Regional settings. The correct way to format dates and numbers based on the user's regional settings?

Question

I\'m having some problems in Windows 8 Metro apps (XAML & C#) regarding the user\'s regional settings. It seems that the apps won\'t respect user\'s regional set

Answer 1

It is intentional. Microsoft is moving away from forcing applications to be in the language of the OS. Instead, each application uses information declared by the application (manifest languages, observable at Windows.Globalization.ApplicationLanguages.ManifestLanguages) and declared by the user (user languages, observable at Windows.System.UserProfile.GlobalizationPreferences.Languages) to determine how to display resources and globalized dates and times. This set of languages is called the application languages (observable at Windows.Globalization.ApplicationLanguages.Languages). The behavior you are seeing is because you are fiddling with the user languages and the manifest languages and you will get different application languages.